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Earlier this week, I ran a poll on what people like to do on Facebook. It’s part of my research on online communities and what makes them so attractive to people. This poll asked the question: “What do you do the most [on Facebook]?” Voters could choose more than one activity, or add their own. The poll received 45 unique visitors and 84 votes. My visitor base was mainly adults with some technical savvy.

Here are the results:
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I’ve been a member of Facebook since it was thefacebook.com back in 2004. I have a modest number of friends (67). I’ve enjoyed all kinds of activity in Facebook, from exchanging mystery virtual Easter eggs to posting “haha” to a friend’s goofy mobile phone photo upload. I’m becoming interested in just how marvelously complex Facebook is. I know there must be hundreds of Facebook apps I’ve never heard of. I’ve even bought a book on how those apps get coded.
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